gluBuild2DMipmaps & access violation

when does glTexImage2D, gluBuild2DMipmaps (and other OpenGL texture functions) cause access violation? If the code is something like this:

Code:

glGenTextures(1, &texture);
glBindTexture(GL_TEXTURE_2D, texture);
gluBuild2DMipmaps(GL_TEXTURE_2D, format, image.getWidth(), image.getHeight(), format, 
    GL_UNSIGNED_BYTE, image.getData());
glTexParameteri(GL_TEXTURE_2D, GL_TEXTURE_MIN_FILTER, GL_LINEAR_MIPMAP_NEAREST);
glTexParameteri(GL_TEXTURE_2D, GL_TEXTURE_MAG_FILTER, GL_LINEAR);

gluBuild2DMipmaps params are correct (including address to pixels), and OpenGL is setup correctly.
The image is a normal 24bit image.
Any ideas?

PS: I searched Google and MSDN, nothing applies to my case :/

Is the image/texture data being loaded and allocated correctly?

hmm, I'm glad and amazed at the same time right now, I've been trying to figure out this for 2 days, and now I've found what was wrong, I needed a call to glPixelStorei ...
I've checked several books and tutorials and none mentioned it as a must, so I still don't know why it's required or otherwise the program causes access violation, may have something to do with image dimensions or something.

BTw some textures weren't showing up correctly and now they do :/